Babysitter Quotes - Page 2

• We're in a culture where everything is either consumption or production, so child care is either a very, very bad-paying form of work or a very expensive luxury that you purchase. There isn't a good place in our picture of the world for what caregiving is about. Even teenage babysitters have sort of disappeared from the scene.

  Alison Gopnik

  Teenage, Children, Culture

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• My dad's all I've ever had. When I was 3 and 4, my mom used to take me to bars. I understand why now - babysitters cost beer, beer and-a-half an hour.

  Christopher Titus

  Mom, Dad, Beer

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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• I guess babysitters are like used cars... You never really know what you're getting.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Car, Used, Knows

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• Listen, I would never judge someone who screwed their babysitter for years or knocked up their secretary, so don't ask me to.

  Pat Martin

  Years, Judging, Knocked Up

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• Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push her on how she really makes it through her day, she will mention her girlfriends.

  Anna Quindlen

  Girlfriend, Calendars, May

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• Africa is like a child that immediately cries for its babysitter when something goes wrong. Africa should stand on its own two feet.

  James Shikwati

  Children, Two, Feet

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Couple, Animal, Simple

  "Quitting Meat: A Process Of Change" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors.

  Stephen King

  Two, Voice, Criticism

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• Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have to make me sound like a full-time babysitting project?" Xavier: "I happen to be an experienced babysitter. I can show you my resume if you'd like.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Understanding, Sound, Gabriel

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• Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter!

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Hello, Inner Child

  "Fictional character: Susan". "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Leo: "So...giants who can throw mountains. Friendly wolves that will eat us if we show weakness. Evil espresso drinks. Gotcha. Maybe this isn't the best time to bring up my psycho babysitter." Piper: "Is that another joke?

  Rick Riordan

  Espresso, Evil, Friendly

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• I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They've go to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I've got to be conscious of that.

  Mr. T

  Pride, People, Car

  "Mr. T" by Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. June 26, 2002.

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• When I was a baby, my mom used to have a dance school, and she used to teach classes there. We didn't have money for a babysitter, so she always brought me with her to the dancing school. Back then, I was already watching and listening to Michael Jackson for a long time.

  Afrojack

  Mom, Baby, School

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• I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality. I was told that this man [mom's lover] was not my mother's lover - when he was. I was told he was there as a male babysitter for my brother so that he would learn sports and other manly things.

  Carly Simon

  Sports, Mom, Mother

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I was living in Gainesville, Florida, and our babysitter brought over the soundtrack to The Who's "Tommy" - not the actual record "Tommy", but the soundtrack to the movie with Elton John and Aretha Franklin. I remember hearing it for the first time and it was so confusing. It was like waves and waves of unknowable and indescribable sound coming out of the stereo.

  John Vanderslice

  Florida, Confusing, Sound

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember those ethics of passivity!). She's never a woman of color. SHe's never a low-income girl or a fat girl. She's never disabled. "Virgin" is a designation for those who meet a certain standard of what women, especially young women, are supposed to look like. As for how these young women are supposed to act? A blank slate is best.

  Jessica Valenti

  Girl, Sexy, Color

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• Though people could, in principle, cross national borders to reach places where their work is more highly rewarded, they are in fact prevented from doing so. As a result, huge differences also persist in the price of labor, as you can see when you get a haircut in rural India or hire a driver or babysitter in Bolivia. You can easily buy such services at one-fiftieth the price you would pay in London, Hamburg or Manhattan.

  Thomas Pogge

  Differences, People, Principles

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We [with Nimai Larson] listened to hardly any music except Hare Krishna music growing up and the occasional Garth Brooks that our babysitter would play for us. From a very early age, we looked at music as mantra based, very cyclical, and having no linear time.

  Taraka Larson

  Growing Up, Play, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Don't let TV be a babysitter!!!!

  Nick Morgan

  Tvs

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• When I grew up, we had no babysitters and nobody every observed us. People don't parent like that today. They're very hands-on; kids are constantly being supervised.

  Brett Morgen

  Kids, Hands, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People are more willing to talk about child abuse. When this whole McMartin thing went down, I was at a dinner party with about eight people, all from different backgrounds and from all over the world. And every single person at that table had had some weird experience as a child. I think everyone has - whether it was with a babysitter, or playing doctor, but usually when some older person tries to come in contact with you. It's amazing how much we block out.

  Laura Dern

  Children, Block, Party

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• I would never put a video in front of my kid. While I don't use videos as a babysitter, they have come in handy on the airplane.

  Sheryl Crow

  Airplane, Kids, Video

  "Sheryl Crow on Motherhood". Interview with Cortney Pellettieri, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 9, 2011.

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• At times it seems as if you're a glorified babysitter with these guys, but they're all really good people. You just want to keep everybody happy. One of the biggest things is to keep the lines of communication open and just to keep everything running as smoothly as possible.

  Gerad Adams

  Running, Communication, People

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• My mouth is a womb. My teeth are my children. My tongue is their babysitter.

  Enya

  Children, Teeth, Mouths

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• Food is a big part of my culture, so everyone knows how to cook. When I came to America and asked a babysitter to softboil an egg for my son and she didn't know how, I was shocked.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Son, Eggs, America

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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